Sunday, February 20, 2011

xmllint is a command-line XML tool used to validate and pretty-print XML documents. More importantly, it offers an interactive shell mode which allows you to use xpaths to print out elements. For example, //body will print out the body element of an HTML document.

I wrote a useful bash function, which uses xmllint to evaluate xpaths really easily:

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